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Gotō Shōjirō

1838 - 1897

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Count Gotō Shōjirō (後藤 象二郎; April 13, 1838 – August 4, 1897) was a Japanese samurai and politician during the Bakumatsu and early Meiji period of Japanese history. He was a leader of Freedom and People's Rights Movement (自由民権運動, jiyū minken undō) which would evolve into a political party. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gotō Shōjirō is the 461st most popular social activist (down from 449th in 2019), the 1,212th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,138th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Japanese Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Gotō Shōjirō ranks 461 out of 840. Before him are Bogaletch Gebre, Mary McLeod Bethune, Carlos Fonseca, Iosif Grigulevich, Petro Grigorenko, and Giuseppe Pinelli. After him are Eugene V. Debs, Irom Chanu Sharmila, Mirabehn, Saalumarada Thimmakka, Pjetër Arbnori, and Surya Sen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Gotō Shōjirō ranks 85. Before him are Giovanni Cagliero, Yisrael Meir Kagan, Eli Lilly, Valeriano Weyler, Oskar Gripenberg, and Paul Mauser. After him are Marianne Cope, Emil Frey, Adam Asnyk, Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi, Alexander Veselovsky, and Duleep Singh. Among people deceased in 1897, Gotō Shōjirō ranks 65. Before him are William Henry Conley, Heinrich von Stephan, James Legge, Alfred Des Cloizeaux, Aleko Konstantinov, and Willem Roelofs. After him are Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau, Mutsu Munemitsu, Léon Gautier, Adam Asnyk, Oscar Dickson, and Jan Heemskerk.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Gotō Shōjirō ranks 1,212 out of 6,245. Before him are Yoshiki (1965), Koji Suzuki (1957), Yoshishige Yoshida (1933), Akira Emoto (1948), Tomitaro Makino (1862), and Sueo Ōe (1914). After him are Ichirō Nagai (1931), Mitski (1990), Satoshi Miyauchi (1959), Nozu Michitsura (1840), Hiroshi Abe (1964), and Mutsu Munemitsu (1844).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Japan

Among social activists born in Japan, Gotō Shōjirō ranks 10. Before him are Ishikawa Goemon (1558), Otoya Yamaguchi (1943), Itagaki Taisuke (1837), Kōtoku Shūsui (1871), Ninomiya Sontoku (1787), Toyohiko Kagawa (1888), and Ōsugi Sakae (1885). After him are Megumi Yokota (1964), Akira Amano (1973), Jared Taylor (1951), Oliver Wood (null), and Sayaka Osakabe (1978).

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